After Maharashtra, beef sale now banned in Haryana

March 14, 2015 18:09

The Haryana government has imposed a complete ban on the sale of beef in any form and proposed to provide for 10 years rigorous imprisonment for cow slaughter, but ruled out equating it with murder.

"The ban also covers canned beef which was legal during the tenure of previous government," according to an official release quoting Animal Husbandry Minister O P Dhankar issued in Chandigarh on Saturday evening.

The move comes days after another BJP-ruled state Maharashtra banned sale and consumption of beef and imposed a five-year jail term for cow slaughter.

"The news being telecast by some TV channels that under the new law, a case would be registered under section 302 (murder) of the IPC against the person found guilty of cow slaughter was wrong," Dhankar clarified.

"There will be no such provision in the law which would aim at the protection and promotion of cows," he added.

The state government is engaged in framing a stringent law to clamp a complete ban on cow slaughter, he said.

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